Wonder-ing Women: The Critical Pedagogical Arc between Ella Baker, Bell Hooks, and Cathy Cohen
Type of Presentation
Individual presentation
Brief Description of Presentation
This presentation explores the critical pedagogical arc between Ella J. Baker, bell hooks, and Cathy Cohen, three Black women who recognize/d and engage/d the educative value of youth participation in peace and justice-oriented political agendas. While neoliberal ideologies do not consider non-violent direct actions for social change viable options for engaging geopolitical turmoil, the Arab Spring-ers and the Black Lives Matters movement freedom fighters, among others, can attest that social media networks can become effective, participatory democratic, and non-violent means for social movement networks of popular education.
Abstract of Proposal
Conflict Transformation, Peace Education and non-violent direct actions for social change are not coded as viable options for engaging geopolitical turmoil within neoliberal ideologies. They are considered unrealistic and naïve forms of security and ineffective diplomacy, in what is advertised as an increasingly volatile global atmosphere. Neoliberal ideologies have a paradoxical embrace of defensive isolation regarding global security and offensive expansion regarding global communications. What happens, though, when transnational and proprietary needs to defend freedoms collide with individual participation and expression on social media networks? Well, “Terms and Conditions May Apply,” but the Arab Spring-ers and the Black Lives Matters movement freedom fighters can testify that social media networks can become effective, participatory, and democratic social movement networks of popular education.
This presentation explores the critical pedagogical arc between Ella J. Baker, bell hooks, and Cathy Cohen. Baker, a philosopher/educator built and taught a framework of critical educational philosophy rooted in the praxis of participatory democracy for non-violent justice-oriented social change, in a modern US American context. As a critical cultural theorist and educator, hooks elaborates on “education as the practice of freedom” that challenges neoliberal epistemologies of schooling and democratic uses and abuses of knowledge in a post-modernist context. Lastly, Cathy Cohen, a political scientist and educator, focuses on current youth of color in the US and their direct and indirect involvement in the participatory politics that are shaping the contexts of geopolitics. I will focus on the educative value of youth participation in peace and justice-oriented political agendas.
Location
Coastal Georgia Center
Start Date
3-26-2016 12:50 PM
End Date
3-26-2016 2:20 PM
Recommended Citation
Jackson, LTP, "Wonder-ing Women: The Critical Pedagogical Arc between Ella Baker, Bell Hooks, and Cathy Cohen" (2016). International Critical Media Literacy Conference. 14.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/criticalmedialiteracy/2016/2016/14
Wonder-ing Women: The Critical Pedagogical Arc between Ella Baker, Bell Hooks, and Cathy Cohen
Coastal Georgia Center
Conflict Transformation, Peace Education and non-violent direct actions for social change are not coded as viable options for engaging geopolitical turmoil within neoliberal ideologies. They are considered unrealistic and naïve forms of security and ineffective diplomacy, in what is advertised as an increasingly volatile global atmosphere. Neoliberal ideologies have a paradoxical embrace of defensive isolation regarding global security and offensive expansion regarding global communications. What happens, though, when transnational and proprietary needs to defend freedoms collide with individual participation and expression on social media networks? Well, “Terms and Conditions May Apply,” but the Arab Spring-ers and the Black Lives Matters movement freedom fighters can testify that social media networks can become effective, participatory, and democratic social movement networks of popular education.
This presentation explores the critical pedagogical arc between Ella J. Baker, bell hooks, and Cathy Cohen. Baker, a philosopher/educator built and taught a framework of critical educational philosophy rooted in the praxis of participatory democracy for non-violent justice-oriented social change, in a modern US American context. As a critical cultural theorist and educator, hooks elaborates on “education as the practice of freedom” that challenges neoliberal epistemologies of schooling and democratic uses and abuses of knowledge in a post-modernist context. Lastly, Cathy Cohen, a political scientist and educator, focuses on current youth of color in the US and their direct and indirect involvement in the participatory politics that are shaping the contexts of geopolitics. I will focus on the educative value of youth participation in peace and justice-oriented political agendas.
